Guild Wars 2

Thieves have the least amount of weapon choices (since eles have attunements) so I think it would be nice if they got a main hand mace or an off-hand torch. That way we can have a cool non-venom stun on the mace main hand to combo with the venom for a nice stun lock play style. The torch would also obviously have to cause burning which would give condi thieves something that pretty much every other condi build has. Also I just wanna make an asura named Tonberry Emperor (already taken) and wield a dagger/torch haha!

But… But… we have steal, which clearly is more than attunements… and.. and… we have stealth! STEALTH!!!! STLEAHT!!!
SLTEAHT!!
STLEATH!!!
STEALTHJ!!!
STEALTH>EVERYTHING IN THE GAME

ugh, good luck with the lock play style… people will QQ so hard it will probably do close to no damage, and easy to interrupt/dodge stuns.

oh yeah, gloom and doom…

warriors have hammer stun lock and mesmers have daze lock but yea QQers will QQ

One new offhand alone with nothing stealth related and more dodge, counter or cond removal-like skills would give us a vast amount of new choices for stealthless builds.

Need Assassin revived. :O

IDK, I think the offhand would have to be stealth related to match the black powder and cloak and dagger of the other two off hands. Would make sense, a thief snuffing out a light gives stealth or something like that.

Stealth just has a bad reputation from perma stealth builds. Stealth attacks are part of the skill set so I think having no stealth is limiting as well.

Not sure if you’re following in general forums:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/stealth-wasn-t-it-planned-differently/

Apparently we can still perma-stealth….
Maybe I’m being picky with the words… but can it be renamed to chain-stealthing…..

i will always be able to perma stealth when i want to, just not as easily of course. Stealth chaining has always existed for us non shadow artists.

This is more about lack of weapons, though i can see why adding anything to a class that already has stealth would be concerning.

I’d actually like to see a build that relies on a medium amount of Stealth. Not the constant steath-spam of Dagger Off-Hand and not the “no stealth” we see with S/P or Shortbow.

But I don’t see how that would work with Initiative.

Personally I’d like to see another 2-handed weapon so the 1-5 skills can be better designed and don’t have to work with the assumption of being used with various off/mainhands.

On the contrary, I have difficulty sticking with just two weapon sets we have so much verity.

Sword/pistol is nice for melee distance AOE, pistol/pistol with ricochet is good for ranged AOE and single target burst, shortbow is good for utility and ranged AOE, dagger/dagger is nice for cloak and dagger, backstab and heartseeker and the mobility of on demand evades.

If you want verity removed, try play a necromancer. For a hybrid burst/condition build which is essentially the only viable PvE build, you’re stuck with scepter/dagger and axe/focus.

before adding a new weapon, they should start to rework the already existing ones, like P/P above everything